What does HackerNews think of facebook-tunnel?
Tunneling Internet traffic over Facebook chat.
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I got the idea myself on a bar, did a quick look online and didnt find anything, later on when I had it built I found that 8 years ago this guy did a similar one: https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel but probably wont work since its using curl
I remember someone writing a proxy that ran over Facebook, maybe it was specifically chat, in response to that. However, I am not able to find it right now.
edit: I found it here[0].
> The idea of this project is to tunnel Internet traffic through Facebook chat (packets are sent as base64), the main component is tuntap and also the Google's Gumbo parser which does the interaction with Facebook (login, send/receive messages, etc.).
https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
I heard about some more, but didn't bookmark them :<
Tor, software for mesh networks, tunneling hacks, and encryption packages serve to fight control and privacy invasion. For example, Facebook Tunnel (https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel) hopefully should never actually be used, but it serves as a statement for network neutrality.
Incidentally, they might've also issued an open invitation to make tunneling more widely known amongst the Internet(.org)-using population.
Reminds me of the "facebook-tunnel" project that appeared on the frontpage a few weeks ago[1], which did effectively turn Facebook into the internet -- though perhaps not exactly the way Facebook would prefer!
How long before someone starts tunneling IP over WhatsApp messages?
Something similar has been done using Facebook chat (looks like it's Linux-only currently) - https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
Yeah, I'm trying to tunnel TCP packets over Facebook chat[0] (to get some free Internet when using "social media" mobile plans).